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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:37:15 +0930
From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> timeliness 
> (kernel features vs taking advantage of them) and co-development (there 
> always seems to be a huge impedance mis-match between user-level 
> developers and kernel developers).

You seem to be saying that putting the code in kernel tree will make
user-level developers more responsive. FWIW (very little) I would have
quietly guessed the opposite result.
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